Carolina Place Mall: From Empty Land to a New Center of Charlotte’s South
The land where Carolina Place Mall stands today was first purchased more than three decades before construction began, tied to early plans for SouthPark Mall.
Belk and Ivey’s families paid $8.5 million for the Pineville property. Still, the location was considered too far from Charlotte’s center, leading to SouthPark’s relocation.
Ivey’s later sold the land to Belk, which in the mid-1980s began planning for Carolina Place. The mall opened in 1991 with 1.2 million square feet and four anchors…